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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301959988 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301959981 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 24, 1995 Running Time: 100 minutes Sales Rank: 2620 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1971
Amazon.com: In this 1971 film, fans of lighter-than-air transport are able to experience what it must have been like to operate a "zepp" in wartime. The effects and attention to detail will please even the most jaded aficionado of dirigibles. Unfortunately, the rest of the audience will find Zeppelin wanting. Neither Michael York nor Elke Sommer manages to be very convincing. While Sommer's Frau Altschul is mere window dressing, York seems torn between playing British spy Richter-Douglas as either an inexperienced bumbler or a Bond-like man of action (York's close-quarters combat with a radio operator seems strikingly similar to a fight sequence in From Russia with Love). Despite the problems, the film still somehow manages to satisfy at least 70 percent of the time. And how many recent films can you think of that feature action aboard a World War I zeppelin? --Mark Savary
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Rating: - Fun movie needs DVD release, but there is a VCD out there
This is a fun WWI movie from the 1970s that I enjoyed while growing up and while there is no DVD yet available there is a VCD out there that regularly appears on auction sites that will allow you to enjoy it on your DVD player.
Whereas movies centering around WWII are numerous, the same is not true about the "Great War." This movie therefore offers a fascinating (and exciting) glimpse at a conflict in which aerial warfare was still in its infancy.
It should hardly be surprising that I like this movie, its an espionage drama revolving around an airship and one of my favorite of the James ... Read More
Rating: - Mission incredible - with a distraction thrown in
The Michael York character in this 1971 movie is no James Bond type, as seen in "A View to a Kill" (1985), where airships were also key to the plot, yet it is clear that he was being forced to choose between the two major warring European powers during the First World War as regards his loyalties.
The plot centres around what appears to be a "simple" task for one Lt. Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a man with German roots yet serving in a minor role in the British Army: get back to Germany and find out all the technical details of a new Navy Zeppelin called the LZ36, the latest in a series of airships ... Read More
Rating: - The Zep Zips
What cab I say ? I directed this incredible film and we all had a lot of fun .great shooting in England and Malta . I'd do it over again if I had the chance !
Rating: - Giant in the Clouds.
This action-adventure flick is a mixed blessing. Michael York is more awkward than heroic as a reluctant WWI spy, who is afraid of heights. Naturally, the British send him on a mission that involves a zeppelin that flies at 15,000 feet. His inexperience at espionage leads to clumsy attempts at humor. The comic book plot is of the newly developed super zeppelin, LZ36. The Germans fly the great airship on a daring mission to remote Scotland to capture the British archives, including the Magna Carta itself. The movie's virtues are the airborne photography and the special effects. The realization of ... Read More
Rating: - A tale of divided loyalties
The setting is WWI Britain. A young, German-born, Scottish officer, played by Michael York, has a desk job with the ministry partly due to problems with vertigo. He is recruited to act as a spy and return to Germany to find out what he can about the new Zeppelin project.
The premise sounded good, but many of the elements needed to make this into a great story were thrown in haphazardly. His lover seems to be more important than is told in the story. His connections to a well known, German scientist seems serendipitous. His vertigo and divided loyalties are touched on lightly then disregarded. ... Read More
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